07-08-2015, 10:54 PM
Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
Elevating a wireless as high as possible and providing clear line-of-sight access for clients are the easiest and most important things you can do to improve WLAN connectivity.
I've found that in most domestic environments, access points located just above ground level provide overall optimum results:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-174757
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1062509
The problem with placing an AP near ground level is that the signal encounters MANY more objects - people, pets, furniture and appliances, among other things - that have the potential to interfere with and/or attenuate the signal. Placing the AP higher up eliminates many of those sources of interference.
In the last ten years, I have overseen the design of tens of thousands of wireless access points from Cisco, Aruba and Alcatel into K-12 environments. In all that time, the manufacturers' recommendation has always been to mount the access point high on the wall.